Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Librarians from the Research and Learning Office will be on call to support KUMC clinicians during the entire holiday break. If a research consultation is needed, please call the Dykes Reference Desk (913) 588-7166. If it is a holiday and the Library is closed, contact dykesresearch@kumc.edu. E-mail will be checked twice daily on holidays.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Students, please grab a piece of fresh fruit at the library's information desk. This Door to Door Organic fruit is brought to you by KUMC's student club, Food is Medicine and funded by Student Governing Council. Enjoy while supplies last!

Friday, November 21, 2014

Links to KUMC-licensed content should be restored in Google by Tuesday 11/25 or Wednesday 11/26. There was a technical issue between Google and the Library's vendor that provides this data. The vendor has fixed the problem and Google Scholar will update their index as scheduled around that time.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
If you have not set KUMC Libraries as one of your Google Scholar Library Links, go to Google Scholar > Settings > Library links. Search for "university of kansas medical center" and any other libraries you have access to.

Beginning November 19, the "One University" Open Access Fund is once again made possible by contributions from the offices
of KU Provost, KU Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Studies,
and KUMC Vice Chancellor for Research.

Due to the significant number of applicants but limited funds during
the two-year pilot of this fund, considerable evaluation of award
results and consultation with KU and KUMC faculty and researchers resulted in
changes to the application process, criteria, and awarding of funds available for the remaining FY15 and FY16. The awarding will now be a monthly competitive process reviewed within
the first 5 business days of each month. Priority will be given to
graduate students, early career research staff, pre-tenure faculty,
those with little or no research funding to support their open access
publishing, and first time OA Fund applicants. You can find full details of the OA Fund here. To request funds, please go here.

KU, KU Law, and KUMC libraries administer and assess the program with
oversight provided by the KU Provost, KU Vice Chancellor for Research
& Graduate Studies, and KUMC Vice Chancellor for Research.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

After four years, Dykes Library has ended the Meet Our Experts program. Effective November 14, 2014, no new publication data or profiles will be added to Meet Our Experts. However, the site will remain online and accessible until November 2016.
The Library Technology team will work with departments and research teams to transport publication data from Meet Our Experts to ORCID Profiles.
Departments that link faculty web pages to Meet Our Experts profiles may consider several options:

Continue to link to Meet Our Experts profile pages until November 2016.

Encourage faculty to sign up for an ORCID Profile and link to the ORCID record. See examples here and here.

Work with the Library and Web Services to explore other options.

Efforts moving forward will focus on identifying better tools and services for the researcher community. The Library remains committed to improving researchers' ability to get correct attribution for their scholarships, highlighting research collaborations, and expanding the visibility of KU Medical Center scholarships. Please contact our Research and Learning team with comments or questions.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

On September 10,
2014 JAMA published a viewpoint article with advice for authors wishing to
publish their review articles in JAMA. Careful scrutiny is needed in systematically
conducting the literature review. For this purpose, JAMA recommended
collaborating with a medical librarian. Thorough searches are difficult, but a
medical librarian can create a customized and systematic roadmap for the
process which will reduce bias in the final article. Additionally, librarians’
experience with the databases will make the search process more efficient and
effective.

The article further summarized ways that this
interprofessional collaboration will help authors:

Help define the question(s), determine scope and
feasibility

Conduct preliminary search to further clarify
scope

Choose data sources based on content beyond PubMed and including Grey Literature

Reduce research question to major concepts

Create search strategies customized to the
sources used and identify synonyms (controlled vocabulary and textwords) and limits

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Clinical Key contains all the content from MD Consult including full texts of books and journal articles. Your favorite texts, such as the Robbins and Cotran pathology titles, can be found in Clinical Key. Plus, Clinical Key provides drug information, CME sponsored by Cleveland Clinic Center, videos, images, patient education handouts, and First Consult, a topical point-of-care database. Clinical Key is accessible from the A.R. Dykes library database resources page. Take advantage of CME and other functions and print and download pdf's by registering for a personal account at the Register link in the upper right of the home page. Please see the Clinical Key Resource Center link at the bottom of each page for more details of Clinical Key features.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

A new web page, Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources, is now available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center. The resources on this page may be of value to international and local organizations and individuals providing Ebola outbreak-related services in West Africa, as well as friends and family of people in the affected region. MedlinePlus also has a web page on Ebola Health Resources for the General Public.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Open Access Week (20-26 October 2014) is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access to scholarly research, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

The theme for this year's Open Access Week is Generation Open. This theme highlights the involvement of students and early career researchers in the shift in the scholarly communication landscape towards open.

Look for KUMC's Dykes Library sponsored OA events later in November. Please go here for a list of KU/KUMC authors who were awarded KU One University Open Access funds for publishing in open access journals.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Friday, August 29, 2014

MD Consult and Clinical Key were inadvertently deactivated on Aug. 29th. We are working on bringing them back up.

Please keep checking our database list for MD Consult and the Clinical Key trial link on our library website banner in the event it activates over this weekend.

We are in the process of licensing Clinical Key and then fully incorporating it into the library catalog and database list. Meanwhile, please stand by while we restore the CK trial and MD Consult access.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Scopus, a cited reference, article metrics and journal impact factor database is available on a trial basis through September 9. If you are familiar with Web of Science, you can compare it to Scopus. Web of Science is available on the library's database page. Please give Scopus a whirl and see what you think.

SciVal offers access to author and institution research output. The A.R. Dykes library is hosting this trial through September 9th. With SciVal, you can build researcher groups, identify research areas, make comparisons to other institutions and countries, view publication sets and save your searches in MySciVal.

To get started, follow the instructions on the registration link. Please register with your full KUMC email address and a unique secure password. To learn more about SciVal features, see the Help guide in the upper right side of the screen to view user manuals and guides.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Beginning early Saturday morning and extending through end of day on Monday, Library systems will be upgraded; this will impact catalog searches, request processes, and check out and renewal of library materials.

The following services will remain available for most of the upgrade; however, there may be periods when these services are not available – watch for further announcements:

Patrons will still be able to use the VuFind Search box on the library home page to search both electronic and print holdings. However, print titles searched and accessed in VuFind will not show availability, location or call number. Electronic journal content can still be searched and accessed via the E-Journal Finder and Citation Linker (http://mt8fd2he2v.search.serialssolutions.com/).

We apologize for any inconvenience

University of Kansas Libraries

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

You can once again print to the color printer. Please go to the Information Desk on the ground floor to pick up your print jobs. We can deduct the amount for you from your GoPrint account our you can pay cash at .35/page. The color printer will remain behind the Information Desk because we have removed the Go Print software from it, thus, there is not a way for you to release your prints with a username and password. Stay tuned for news about free b/w printing starting July 1.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

We're experiencing problems with network access to the Archie (DSpace) Handle Server. This prevents Handle URLs such as http://hdl.handle.net/2271/212 from resolving to content hosted at Archie. The content is still accessible at the Archie-specific URL, e.g. http://archie.kumc.edu/xmlui/handle/2271/212.

Friday, March 7, 2014

The library is pleased to announce that patrons of our interlibrary loan services can now pay their invoices online with a credit or debit card.

Click the green "Pay your fees" button the left-hand side of the Dykes Library homepage screen, enter your invoice number and proceed with payment. If you are unsure of your invoice number, please call (913-588-5073) or e-mail the interlibary loan staff and we would be happy to provide that for you.

Thank you for using our services and we're happy to offer this more convenient payment system for you.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

We are pleased to announce that theNew England Journal of Medicine online access has been restored. Thank you for your patience while we resolved this issue and we are sorry for the inconvenience it may have caused.